Milk-bottle holder



July 28,- 1925 C. M. LONG MILK BOTTLE HOLDER Filed Jan. 2, 1924 INVENTORPatent-ed duly 28, 1925.

UNITED. STATES CLYDE M. Lone,

or romano, OHIO. p

MILK-BOTTLE HOLDER.

Application filed January 2, 1924. ,SerialNo. 683,857

To all whom it may concern.

Beit known that I, CLYDE M. 'LONG, 21 citizen-offthe United States, anda resident of Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State ofOhio,rhavein;vented a new and useful Milk-Bottle Holder, which inventionis fully set forth in the following specification.

My invention has for its object to provide a simple yet eiiicient milkbottle holder that may be made at a low cost of production. The holderis so designed that the milk bottle may be easily and even roughlyplaced in position on the holder and so that the milk bottle will ifnecessary slip into a position that the bottle may be better engaged andsecured by the holder.

A milk bottle holder containing the invention is shown in theaccompanying dravw ings and will be described hereinafter.

Figure 1 is a front view of the holder. Fig. 2 is a side view of theholder and Fig. 3 is a top view of the holder.

The holder is provided with a sheet metal supporting member 1 havingmeans for conveniently connecting it to a vertical wall or part of astructure having a vertical surface. It is provided with an opening 2for receiving the head of a nail or screw and a slot 3 extending upwardfrom the opening 2 for receiving the shank of the screw or nail. Ifdesired, it may also be provided with an opening 4% for a screw or nailwhereby the supporting member may be securely fastened to the wall of abuilding. The supporting member is preferably provided with a flange 5that gives the supporting member rigidity as well as makes it attractivein appearance. Two pairs of parallel cuts 6 and 7 are made in the faceof the supporting member 1 and 'a pair of fingers is secured by means ofthe metal between the cuts.

The fingers 8 are formed of a single piece of wire 9 havingsubstantially U-shaped end portions 10, one leg of each of the Us beingformed much longer than the other leg of the U to reduce the leverageaction caused by the weight of the bottle. The metal between theparallel cuts 6 and 7' is raised above the face of the supporting member1 and the looped portions are inserted between the face of thesupporting member 1 and the raised portions of the metal between thecuts 6 and 7. This leaves the end portions 11 of the longer legs of theUs well below the lower cuts 7 to assist in supporting the bottleandprevent further opening the openings formed by the cuts 6 and 7. Thewire is bent to form the fingers that extend from the looped portions 10and so that when thelooped portions 10 are placed in position, that is,parallel to the face of the supporting member 1, the fingers will beinclined upward away from the face of the supporting member 1 at anangle such that when the neck of the milk bottle is placed betweenthefingers, it will of its own weight tend to work down towards the faceof the supporting member 1. The fingers 8 are each formed of twoportions of the wire 9. The portion 12 extends from the loop 10 in eachcase and the portions 18 of the fingers 8 integrally connect with theportions 12 through upturned loop portions 1 1 and with each otherthrough the semicircular curved portion 15. The fingers are thusprovided with up-turned end portions formed by the loops 1a, whichprevents the bottle'from be ing pulled from the holder and aids inlocating the bottle well on the holder. The distance between the ends ofthe fingers 8 is normally less than the diameter of the neck of thebottle at a point just below the lip, while the distance between theportions 12 at the point that they integrally connect with the portion15 is about the same as that of the diameter of the neck of the bottlebelow the lip, or preferably slightly larger. When, therefore, thebottle is placed in position so that the outer portion of the lip islocated between the up-turned looped portions 14 and the face of theholder, 1, the elasticity of the fingers and the inward pressure againstthe neck of the bottle will tend to push the bottle towards the face 1.This will be aided by the inclined position of the fingers relative tothe supporting member 1. The milk bottle will thus be forced into aposition, if indifferently placed, such that substantially one-halfof'the lip will be placed over the semi-circular curved portion 15.Thus, the milk bottle will be supported by contact of over one-half ofthe lip against the holder. A swinging movement due to the wind or othercauses will work the milk bottle into position to be more securelyengaged by the holder.

The wire bent to form the fingers is securely attached to the supportingmember 1 in the proper position, bydepressing the portions 16 of thepart of the metal of the supporting member 1 located between the cuts 6and! between the legs of-the' looped I claim: A milk bottle holder,having a pair of supporting fingers formed of a single piece of wireinterconnected by a semi-circular curved portion that fits below thelip'of the milk bottle, the wire having looped ends, a sheet metalsupporting member having a pair- 0f parallel outsformingstripsintegrally connected t'o' the body of the-member forreceiving the looped endsbetw'een the strips and the body of the member,the'sa'id strips depressed between the legs of the loops, the fingersbeingliinclined upward away from the support and having upwardly-turnedends, the distances between the ends being slightly less than thediameter of the neck of the milk bottle below the lip of the. milkbottle, the radius of the semi-cylindrical curved-part of the wire beingsubstantially the same as the radius of the neck of the milk bottlebelow the-lip".

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name to thisspecification.

CLYDE M. LONG.

